Internet Links
Here are some helpful Websites . . .
Services
U.S. Treasury Service
One of the most frequently visited sites in America. The Internal Revenue Service has more than you would ever want to know regarding taxes.
Public Broadcasting System
This is the internet site for public television.
The Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration web site. This is a great place to request earnings reports or to ask questions about Social Security.
US Government Search
This is a search engine specifically for U.S. Government information.
The White House
This is the web site of the President of the United States. Want to hear, first hand, what the President is saying? Or want a tour of the White House? This is the place.
American Kennel Club
Have a pet? AKC is the American Kennel Club's web site.
Ebay
Ebay is one of the largest Internet companies that allows users to buy and sell goods. But beware...try as they might some users are not on the up and up.
mysimon.com
Mysimon conducts comparison shopping on the web so you don't have to...
WebMD
The most popular medical related site for consumers in 2001.
Free weather forecasts
This site provides weather local, national, and international weather forecasts. The service is free.
Estate Planning
Velasco Law Group
Velasco Law Group is a law firm that specializes in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, probate and trust litigation, as well as asset protection planning.
The attorneys at Velasco Law Group are able to skillfully assist clients with planning for the preservation of their wealth and ultimate transfer to future generations by implementing proper estate planning techniques to compliment the client's wealth accumulation strategies. We also are mindful of long-term care issues that may arise, and we are able to competently counsel our clients on such matters. Our attorneys work closely with the client's other professional advisors, such as the accountant, financial planner and insurance agent, in order to ensure that the plan is comprehensive and properly integrated. The firm is committed to high qualify and personalized estate planning for each client.
Shari Mattingly-Bevan can be contacted at 714.567.9266.
Health Insurance
The HSA Insider
This website is designed to help individuals and employers have their questions about Health Savings Accounts answered. Which insurers offer a Health Savings Account policy?
Alan Herman
For information on High Deductible Health Plans, contact Alan Herman at aherman@socal.rr.com.
Health Coverage Guide
Everything small business owners and their advisors need to know about offering health insurance. An unbiased resource on cost estimates, tax savings, coverage options, legal rights, and more.
ElderCare
A Place for Mom
A Place for Mom is the nation's largest eldercare referral network. Our advice and consultation is provided at no cost to families, as many communities reimburse us for our services.
For assistance with choosing the right place for mom (or dad!). I will help navigate the options for senior living, identify and connect you with right people, and stay with you until your loved one is settled. This family advisement and referral service is FREE to families.
Donna Edman
Family Advisor
Telephone: 714.870.0374
Toll Free: 866.344.0512
donna.edman@aplaceformom.com
Retirement Planning
AARP
Creating a financial plan, estate planning, financial advisers, insurance, investing and saving, retirement income . . . and more.
Employee Benefits Security Administration
An information source for private retirement and health plans.
Fidelity Investments
Use this website to help determine when retirement is affordable and how to allocate investments based on age, assets, and other individual information.
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
The Federal agency that insures companies' traditional pensions.
Pension Rights Center
A nonprofit advocacy group protecting and promoting pension rights.
National Retiree Legislative Network
Supports the benefits and pensions of retirees.
Smart Money
Use this website to help determine when retirement is affordable and how to allocate investments based on age, assets, and other individual information.
Vanguard Group
Use this website to help determine when retirement is affordable and how to allocate investments based on age, assets, and other individual information.
Retail Sites
A Mother's Love Photo
As a mom, I know all too well how powerful a mother's love is. A mother's love touches everything within a family's life and is the foundation of my work. I understand the desire parents have to capture the fleeting times of their children's lives. This understanding is the cornerstone of my philosophy. It heightens my ability and helps me capture children the same way I capture my own - naturally, and lovingly.
Working Space Unlimited, Inc.
Your office is an important marketing tool. What is your office saying about you and how you do business? After working with our consultants, entrepreneurs and small business people consistently report an increase in productivity and profit, in addition to an increased sense of pride in their surroundings. We can help you: redocorate for improved comfort and efficiency, organize files and storage, streamline office procedures.
Professional Organizers can also help with life changes.
During a move or corporate relocation, an organizer can assist with packing, staging a home for sale, planning the space in your new home, and unpacking.
When moving into a retirement community or planning the dissolution of an estate, an organizer can help coordinate a system for making sure precious items are properly stored and/or distributed, stage an auction or garage sale, refer vendors for accounting and legal services, and act as an impartial agent of the family.
After being divorced or widowed, an organizer can help make the painful task of sorting through possessions linked to memories easier by bringing objectivity to the process and providing emotional support.
When taking on a new business challenge, an organizer can help create a work environment which will improve productivity and efficiency for you and your colleagues. An organizer can help turn your workplace into a marketing tool, illustrating for all who enter the kind of well-oiled machine your business, department, classroom, shop, et cetera is.
Amazon.com
One of the largest internet retailers, Amazon.com is best known as a place to buy books and CDs.
Research
Alta Vista
Search Engine
Beaucoup
Search Engine
DogPile
Search Engine
Excite
Search Engine
Hotbot
Search Engine
InfoSeek
Search Engine
Lycos
Search Engine
WebCrawler
Search Engine
Yahoo
Search Engine
Google.com
A great search engine without a bunch of advertising and banners. It's nice and simple, but best of all, it works!
Northern Lights Search Engine
We have found this search engine to be fairly good compared to Yahoo.
Travel
One Travel
all in one!
Rick Steves Europe
For 30 years Rick Steves has taught smart European travel. This website - like his guidebooks, TV series and radio program - is dedicated to exactly that. We hope the information here helps turn your travel dreams into smooth, affordable reality.
Travel Bug
TravelBug.com offers the vacation traveler useful travel information for exciting destinations across the Southeastern United States, whether you're a sun lover looking for the beach or an avid golfer looking for the greens.
Fodors
Looking for travel ideas? This is the popular Fodors' travel guide company web site.
Mapquest.com
Mapquest provides maps to and from desired destinations. The service also tells you the distance (in miles) and anticipated travel time. The service is free.
Travelocity
Travelocity helps book tickets for travel plans, including airlines and hotels.
Reverse Auction Sites
Priceline.com
This internet site specializes in getting you low cost travel tickets, rental cars and cruises. You submit a bid, and the supplier (i.e. airlines) accepts or rejects it. It can be a great way to get lower cost airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars and cruises.
Respond.com
This reverse auction site allow you to tell many companies what you want and they will bid to get your business.